mercoledì 12 ottobre 2011

009 - Stadium Blitzer underbody, first attempt

After months without posting anything on my blog I'm back with a little project started in august, after my holidays.
For the holidays I had planned to bring with me my FF03 because near the holiday home there's a rc track. Unfortunately some days before the depart during the shakedown of some new upgrades I broke a suspension and I had no spares. so I decided to bring on holiday my Stadium Blitzer to get some fun on the lawn.
After some runs on the grass I noticed two issues:
the Sport Tuned motor has not the power needed to have too much fun on the grass;
the second problem is show in the picture below:

For the first problem the solution in easy: replace the Sport Tuned with a more powerful motor and soon i will do it.
For the second problem I tought of a solution inspired to short course truck underbody and I built a mould with wood and filler and this evening I tryed to mould a 2 liters pepsi bottle with a heatgun... results are not exciting but I think that this is the right way, I only have to buy two or three pepsi bottle!
Here some other pics and the first results:
The Blitzer, the mould and the bottle

The bottle wrapped on the mould


After the heat gun

First attempt



Second attempt
 

mercoledì 22 giugno 2011

008 - Mission accomplished


Installing a full set of stainless steel screws is a simple work of re-building. I did it for my FF03 following the Tamiya manual and having a lot of fun, it was almost the same of building a new kit.
The only "problem" is that the two long screws that are screwed in the motor plate passing trough the motor stay and the gearbox are too much longer. It depends from the carbon motor stay that I'm using that it is tiny respect the stock one.
I solved this little inconvenient using two trimmed CVA shocks spacers.
I used a old mouse pad to get a new foam bumper... nice!


mercoledì 15 giugno 2011

007 - Stainlees Steel



Finally it's arrived! I ordered this stainless steel screws set for my FF03 the 27th of april from RcScrewz.com and they shipped it to me the 29th, indicating a delivery time of 6-10 business day and i think it is a reasonable time to wait considering that I live in Italy and they are from US.
But , at that time, I didn't know anything about the postal disaster that it was hitting the italian postal service... And today I've received it. The strange thing is that yesterday I sended an e-mail to the italian post to know something about my srew set, coincidence?
Finally this evening I can swap all the original Tamiya screws for the stainless steel set forgiving, for a evening, the buzzing gremlin that lives in to my servos.